Routledge Research in Education
About the Book Series
This series aims to present the latest research from right across the field of education. It is not confined to any particular area or school of thought and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
From Testing to Productive Student Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings
1st Edition
By David Carless
September 04, 2012
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. ...
Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South: Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
By Anders Breidlid
August 24, 2012
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western ...
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice: Decolonizing Community Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Lavia, Michele Moore
July 27, 2012
This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore ...
International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education
1st Edition
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By Joel E. Cohen, Martin B. Malin
July 27, 2012
Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary ...
Mathematical Relationships in Education: Identities and Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Black, Heather Mendick, Yvette Solomon
July 27, 2012
This book brings together scholars working in the field of mathematics education to examine the ways in which learners form particular relationships with mathematics in the context of formal schooling. While demand for the mathematically literate citizen increases, many learners continue to reject ...
Perspectives on Supported Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
1st Edition
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By David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson, Anne Kennedy
July 27, 2012
Supported collaborative teacher inquiry (SCTI) describes the process of professional development in which teacher teams build collaborative structures for the purpose of inquiring into aspects of their own instructional practice. Professional development performed collaboratively and grounded in "...
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny, Judith Remy Leder
July 27, 2012
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school ...
Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Fumiyo Kagawa, David Selby
July 11, 2012
There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?&...
Educational Transitions: Moving Stories from Around the World
1st Edition
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By Divya Jindal-Snape
July 11, 2012
Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment...
Manufacturing Citizenship: Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China
1st Edition
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By Veronique Benei
July 11, 2012
In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity. This book focuses on educational enterprise and how it affects national ambitions, cultural preferences and ...
Emergent Computer Literacy: A Developmental Perspective
1st Edition
By Helen Mele Robinson
March 13, 2012
The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop computer knowledge, and the ways that adults are able to guide their computer learning experiences, is a ...
The Politics of Structural Education Reform
1st Edition
By Keith A. Nitta
February 24, 2012
Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to...